Latest Updates - VETbytes

Latest updates feed for emergency and critical care (ECC)

We have trawled through the latest veterinary journals and created condensed summaries of the most recently published papers relevant to ECC

Keep up to date with the latest evidence without having to spend hours reading and use these as templates for your journal clubs as part of quality improvement (QI) in your practice

30th May 2022

Study shows that dogs with anticoagulant rodenticide intoxication present with diverse locations of haemorrhage and the majority of dogs had non cavitary haemorrhage noted ...read more

28th April 2022

Large study in cats confirms that stress hyperglycaemia is associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and seems to be a negative prognostic indicator in sick non-diabetic cats ...read more

28th April 2022

Study shows that feline dystocia can result in up to 34% mortality for kittens delivered via both medical and surgical means and that hypoglycaemia and hypocalcaemia were not precipitating causes of feline dystocia in this population of cats ...read more

27th April 2022

Large prospective study demonstrates that the incidence of feline blood donation adverse reactions is low (1.14%) ...read more

27th April 2022

Study shows that cats fed a predominantly dry diet were 15.9 times more likely to develop a ureteral obstruction than cats eating a predominantly moist food ...read more

12th April 2022

Cats placed on dual antithrombotic therapy with clopidogrel and rivaroxaban for an arterial thromboembolic event, lived longer and had fewer recurrences than reported from previous studies evaluating other antithrombotic regimes ...read more

31st March 2022

Large study describes the occurrence and clinical management of urethral obstruction in male cats under UK veterinary primary care ...read more

30th March 2022

Resolution of lung consolidations on lung ultrasound and normalisation of C-reactive protein concentrations seem to be the monitoring tools that most closely follow clinical findings compatible with aspiration pneumonia in dogs ...read more

30th March 2022

Study shows that the urinary cortisol-creatinine ratio appears to be a valuable and reliable screening test for hypoadrenocorticism in dogs. The most significant advantage of this test is the need for only a single urine sample ...read more

29th March 2022

Study found no clear adverse outcomes associated with gastric digestion of bones, or with gastric advancement and digestion of bones initially entrapped in the oesophagus in dogs ...read more

28th March 2022

Study shows that congestive heart failure is the most common cause of pleural effusion in cats ...read more

28th March 2022

Study shows that over 50% of dogs that recover from parvoviral enteritis are reported to suffer from persistent GI signs at follow up, highlighting the importance of prevention for this disease ...read more

27th March 2022

Study shows that the specificity of canine parvovirus PCR is affected by vaccination, especially during the first 3 weeks after vaccination and when samples are obtained from the rectum or blood ...read more

27th March 2022

Study demonstrated that a high survival-to-discharge rate can be achieved in dogs requiring surgery for treatment of an oesophageal foreign body ...read more

26th March 2022

Study shows that the case fatality rate of dogs with acute kidney injury is more favourable than has been previously documented ...read more

22nd March 2022

Study shows that carprofen has low excretion into milk and may provide an analgesic alternative for lactating bitches without mastitis ...read more

22nd March 2022

Study highlights the risks for short term mortality and recurrence in dogs with status epilepticus ...read more

22nd March 2022

Study shows an increased risk of hypertension in dogs with nonassociative (primary) immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia ...read more

11th March 2022

In dogs with pyometra, the quick sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score was associated with mortality and length of hospitalisation and might be a useful tool to improve the risk stratification in this cohort of dogs ...read more

25th February 2022

Study shows that cats sustaining canine bite wounds generally have a good prognosis and finds that the presence of multiple injuries, penetrating injuries, radiographic evidence of vertebral body fractures, body wall abnormalities, hypoproteinaemia, elevated ALT, high animal trauma triage scores and high severities of injury scores were negative predictors of survival ...read more

18th February 2022

Study shows that severe mucosal damage and associated barrier dysfunction e.g. acute haemorrhagic diarrhoea, may trigger chronic GI disease later in life in dogs ...read more

11th February 2022

Study showed that fresh feline RBCs exhibited no in vitro evidence of injury following passage through an 18 μm microaggregate filter ...read more

6th February 2022

A large study of dogs and cats admitted to an ER demonstrated that substantial increases in plasma lactate over the 6 hours following admission were associated with high mortality and a delta lactate > 4.5 mmol/L was 100% specific for death ...read more

31st January 2022

Study in cats shows that the intrarenal injection method for euthanasia results in rapid cardiopulmonary arrest with few agonal reactions in most patients ...read more

29th January 2022

Study demonstrates that dogs with brain herniation have significantly higher SBP, greater difference between SBP and HR and lower MGCS score at admission compared to dogs with a normal brain MRI ...read more